Dr. Gladys Maestre found that close to 20% of people over 65 in the Rio Grande Valley have memory loss, versus around 12% on ...

Infections like the flu or shingles trigger inflammation throughout the body, including in the brain. This stress is thought ...

To experience or even contemplate dementia raises some of the most profound questions: What does it mean to be a person? How ...

To improve the lives of our fellow citizens who are living with dementia or providing dementia care, all of us need to pay attention to how we imagine and talk about these interwoven and increasingly ...

A recent study tracking over 430,000 people found that the RSV vaccine (as well as the shingles vaccine) was associated with a reduced risk of dementia over 18 months compared with those who received ...

Column written by Dr Christine Ritchie] Alzheimer’s is a disease that inspires a great deal of concern in many of us, whether ...

Drinking any amount of alcohol increases your risk of dementia later in life, according to a new study that challenges prior ...

In Alzheimer’s disease, Hameroff says, scientists don’t know whether the microtubules disintegrate and release the tau or whether the tau falls off because of a malfunction that weakens the bond. The ...

Living with a sense of purpose may not just enrich life, it could also guard against dementia. A UC Davis study tracking over ...

New research shows that having a sense of purpose in life may have another benefit as people age: reducing the risk of ...

A new study suggests even light drinking can raise dementia risk – here’s how the MIND diet could help safeguard brain health ...